WHO to hold emergency meeting on Mers crisis

(MENAFN - Khaleej Times) The un health agency will host the emergency meeting on tuesday to discuss the worrying spread of the deadly mers virus.

the world health organisation said on friday it would hold an emergency meeting next week on the deadly mers virus amid concern over the rising number of cases in several countries.

the un health agency will host the emergency meeting on tuesday to discuss the worrying spread of the virus which in less than two years has killed 126 people in saudi arabia alone spokesman tarik jasarevic told reporters in geneva.

the who’s emergency committee has already met four times to discuss the mysterious corona virus which surfaced in mid-2012. “the increase in the number of cases in different countries raises a number of questions” jasarevic said without giving furer details of the aim of the new talks.

the who experts will brief reporters at the end of the teleconferenced meeting on tuesday evening he said.

the middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus (mers- cov) is considered a deadlier but less-transmissible cousin of the sars virus that broke out in asia in 2003 infecting 8273 people and killing nearly 800 of them.

like sars it appears to cause a lung infection with patients suffering from a temperature coughing and breathing difficulties. but it differs in that it also causes rapid kidney failure.

meanwhile saudi arabia’s death toll from mers has risen to 126 since the virus first appeared in the kingdom.

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